Rebeca
Carapiá

Using mainly iron and copper, Rebeca Carapiá’s work takes the form of sculptures, installations, drawings, and engravings, in which torsion, bonding, and approximation of these materials constitute an abstract calligraphy. With words as their starting point, Carapiá’s pieces inflate, bend, and slice language in an exercise to dislocate it from a linear and monolithic position. As such, her work shapes itself as a distinctive language, the result of the bond between body, terrain, memory, and knowledge stemming from the artist’s own experiences, as well as those imbued in the materials of the pieces.

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